Sure, but nobody actually thought that way.
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Replying to @BunchesOfBees
no one thought in terms of the need for christendom to put aside infighting to wage war against infidels?
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Replying to @alicemazzy
Not my point. That is literally what they thought, but the view that it's abstractable is a modern invention
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Replying to @BunchesOfBees @alicemazzy
Like literally *none* of these ideas would exist if not for specific outcomes of colonialism, slavery and american war
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Replying to @BunchesOfBees @alicemazzy
That's what grinds my gears about these people—we *know* what they really think and why they really think it
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Replying to @BunchesOfBees @alicemazzy
This fetishization of a medieval abstract clash of cultures which is somehow transplantable into the modern era is
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Replying to @BunchesOfBees @alicemazzy
an excuse which exists only because it became unpopular to be like "yeah I'm super racist."
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Replying to @BunchesOfBees
ohh ok I understand what you mean know. I agree that there isn't a way to recapture old worldviews with good fidelity and...
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Replying to @alicemazzy
...map them onto present reality. I don't think that a *modern* narrative of clash of civilizations is necessarily coded...
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...language for race however. I know hardcore blank-slaters who subscribe to it. find a lot of big-idea theories on such...
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...topics tend to break pretty cleanly into one of/some mix of biology, culture, or circumstances
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